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Britain’s battered coastline has suffered years worth of erosion in recent weeks, with some places losing more than five metres of shore to the sea literally overnight, the National Trust said yesterday.

Two months of storms have undermined cliffs, washed away sand dunes and destroyed access to some of the country’s most beautiful beaches. The National Trust, which is custodian of a third of England’s coastline and 20 per cent of that around Wales, says it is having to address erosion issues it was not expecting to have to deal with for a generation or more.